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Mesolithic and Neolithic Habitation of the Eastern Baltic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Arvi Liiva  and
Ilze Loze
Arvi Liiva
Affiliation:
Institute of Zoology and Botany, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Vanemuise Street 21 EE-2400 Tartu, Estonia
Ilze Loze
Affiliation:
Institute of Latvian History, 19, Turgenev Street, LV-1518 Riga, Latvia
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Abstract

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In this paper we consider the radiocarbon chronology of Mesolithic and Neolithic settlement sites in the eastern Baltic region. Dating of wood and charcoal from Estonian and Latvian sites establishes the periods (early, middle and late) within these epochs. We present 90 14C dates, as yet unpublished in radiocarbon, produced by laboratories in Riga, Tallin, Tartu, Leningrad and Moscow.

Type
Archaeology
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 503 - 506
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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